The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
ITEM 3 · MIXED — THE SHOW CULTURE TESTED; THE FAIRGROUND DISPLAY IS THE TOWN'S OWN FORM
The checklist's show — the dealers of a place exhibiting together under one roof, the machines in a row for the town to walk — is a city institution of the automobile's second decade, and no such show is documented for Walkerton in any record this run reached. The town's dealers were three men in 1916 (Businesses's canvass), a population that exhibits in its own showrooms by definition; the collective display this ground actually knew was the fairground's — the implement and machine exhibits of the fair culture this history carries at boundary size (the county fair's grounds being South Bend's), where the township's dealers and agents showed their lines among the livestock and the canned goods. The newspaper instrument that would settle a one-off show — the Independent's and Tribune's automobile-week coverage of the 1910s–30s — stands named in the run note as the item's settler; until it is read, the show article closes MIXED: the institution tested and not found at reached strength, its local substitute (the fair exhibit) printed in its place, and the absence itself unsurprising — a three-dealer town does not rent a hall to show itself its own three cars.
Principal sources: Businesses (the 1916 canvass); this history (the fair relation); the Independent/Tribune automobile coverage named as settler.